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a|m The 1987-88 Aggieland Video Yearbook
Is looking for hard-working, dependable students for staff positions.
The Assistant Producer and some camera people will be put on the pay
roll this summer for immediate training.
Following positions will be filled in the Fall:
* Camera people
* Artistic Director
* Secretary
* Script Writer
* Research Assistant
Applications will be considered immediately for any of the above, but
payroll for these job categories will not start generally until September.
Applications are available in Student Publications Office, 230 Reed Mc
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5 p.m.
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Page 6/The BattalionAVednesday, July 29,1987
World and Nation
Reagan hails advances
Vol. 82 r
in science technology tp
WASHINGTON (AP) — Presi
dent Reagan urged industrial and
scientific interests Tuesday to move
“as quickly as possible” to exploit
breakthroughs in superconductivity.
Reagan, who favors self-help ini
tiatives over government bailouts as
a means for U.S. business to com-
E ete globally, called laboratory
reakthroughs into high-tempera-
ture superconductivity “an historic
achievement.”
But in a speech to a government-
sponsored conference bringing to
gether business executives and scien
tists, Reagan also said that “for the
promise of superconductivity to be
come real, it must bridge the gap
from the laboratory to the market
place.”
Reagan suggested that the United
States, which had a $166.3 billion
foreign trade deficit last year, must
not allow other nations to get the up
per hand in the commercial exploi
tation of the potential of supercon
ductivity, the process by which
electricity is conducted with no loss
of energy to resistance.
Reagan said the government
would do all it could to help foster
development of this technology by
industry, and said his administration
was proposing to double the Na
tional Science Foundation budget
over the next five years.
The president also noted that he
will propose to Congress several leg
islative changes covering antitrust
law, patents and protection of com
pany secrets.
But he made it clear he thinks in
dustry and science should take the
lead.
Developments over the past year
have raised expectations that super
conductivity can be exploited com
mercially.
Materials must be chilled before
becoming superconductors, and un
til recently they had to be made
colder than 400 degrees below zero
Fahrenheit.
That cost too much to be econom
ically appealing.
But scientists worldwide have be
gun reporting superconductivity!
new class of materials at nut
warmer temperatures, allowing®
ing with much cheaper refrigerat
than has been possible in the past
One possible application is in If;
delivery of electricity to utility a
tomers. Much electrical currem
lost to resistance before the enei;
reaches the customer.
The loss to the nation’s utilities
estimated at 10 percent to bps
cent.
The two-day conference k
stirred controversy because of an a;
ministration decision to bar foreiy
officials and business represent
lives. However, the meeting»;
open to domestic and foreign ns
media coverage.
William R. Graham Jr., Reap:
science adviser, said the decision:
open the Federal Conference!
Commercial Applications ofSupe
conductivity only to American pi
ticipants was made because thei:
ministration wanted a domes:
forum that focused on U.S. indust
and research.
Side effects of drug inhibiting
spread of AIDS may limit use
BAR HARBOR, Maine (AP) — Laboratory studies
show that interferon inhibits multiplication of the AIDS
virus and its ability to kill cells, but the drug’s side ef
fects may limit its use in AIDS patients, a researcher
said Tuesday.
Paula Pitha, a cancer specialist at Johns Hopkins Uni
versity in Baltimore, said that interferon does not cure
acquired immune deficiency syndrome, but merely
slows its progression.
“It means you have to treat with interferon for a long
time, and the present interferon treatment has some
side effects — people don’t feel well,” Pitha said. She
spoke during a gathering of geneticists at the Jackson
Laboratory in Bar Harbor.
Interferon, a natural anti-viral substance produced
by the body to fight disease, was widely touted several
years ago as a potentially important weapon against
the assembly of AIDS viruses in some way thatmab
7 ■
them less infectious.
“If you treat cells before they are infected, yout
hibit the virus replication,” she said. "Interferona:
also suppress the infection which has already beent?
tablishecl.”
Interferon also makes the AIDS virus less abletoki
certain white blood cells called T-lymphocytes.
The killing of the T-lymphocytes by the AIDS virus!
one of the ways that the immune systems of AIDSp
tients are damaged by the virus.
Pitha has also found, as was reported at aninttra
tional conference on AIDS held in Washington injur,i
that other viruses of the herpes family can activaltk
tent AIDS virus. “It might be a very importantfaclor
the cause of the infection,” she said.
Though it has proven to be effective against some
cancers, it has not had the dramatic impact that many
researchers had hoped. It produces flu-like symptoms
and alterations in immune systems, Pitha said.
These side effects might not be a great concern in pa
tients who are seriously ill with AIDS.
However, Pitha’s research suggests that interferon
might prevent AIDS in patients who have been infected
with the virus but have not yet developed the disease.
Interferon’s side effects could be of greater concern
in such patients, who are outwardly healthy.
Pitha’s studies with interferon and AIDS-infected
cells in the laboratory suggest that interferon disrupts
The finding could explain how the AIDS vir.
which can remain latent in the body for five yeai
longer, is suddenly triggered to produce active k
tion and symptoms of AIDS, Pitha said.
The finding also raises the possibility that acydov;:
drug approved for the treatment of herpes infect
might be useful in AIDS patients, Pitha said.
Unfortunately, when acyclovir is administered foil
long period herpes viruses mutate and no longerarcii
fected by the drug, she said.
Pitha said that natural interferon productions
tered in patients with AIDS. Such findings reinta
the suggestion that the administration of interfere
might be useful in AIDS patients.
Carlos
will be
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Radio station based
on ship off NY coast
seized by FCC agents
LONG BEACH, N.Y. (AP) — A
ship-based rock ’n’ roll radio station
was seized Tuesday and two men
were arrested after broadcasting
from international waters for five
days in defiance of the Federal Com
munications Commission.
“It’s not going to cause me to give
up, but obviously this is a major set
back,” said Randi Steele, operations
manager for the station, Radio New-
york International, that broadcast
from a rusty fishing boat.
“The basic message is that the
FCC, the way it is acting, is in clear
violation of the First Amendment,”
he said. “If I had my way, the entire
FCC would be disbanded and rebuilt
from the ground up.”
Steele had said earlier that the
ship, flying the Honduran flag, was
not subject to FCC jurisdiction be
cause it was one mile outside the
three-mile territorial limit of the
United States, off the south shore of
Long Island.
The Coast Guard, which deliv
ered a warning from the FCC on
Saturday, and FCC officials boarded
the vessel early Tuesday and ar
rested three men, later freeing one
who was a journalist, Assistant U.S.
Attorney Matthew Fishbein said.
The remaining two were charged
with operating a broadcast station on
board a ship outside national territo
ries and conspiring to impede the
functions of the FCC. The charges
carry up to five years in prison and
$250,000 in fines.
auiiionzecl transimsMoua can cause
interference and deprive the general
public from receiving authorized li
censed stations.”
Smith said the 200-foot, Hondu
ran-registered fishing boat was
boarded with the permission of the
Honduran government.
Ramiro Figueroa, a spokesman
for the Honduran Embassy in Wash
ington, said the men might also face
charges in Honduras because the
ship was registered only for fishing.
“It’s supposed to be a fishing
boat,” he said. That’s it. It is break
ing Honduran law. It was not sup
posed to operate as a radio station.”
Steele said of the Hondurans:
“We expected protection . . . We
were committing no illegal act.”
Coast Guard Chief Petty Officer
Joe Gibson identified those arrested
as station engineer Alan Weiner of
Monticello, Maine, who has boasted
in the past of his ability to uncover
loopholes in broadcasting regula
tions, and disc jockey Ivan Rothstein
of Brooklyn.
Fishbein saidR.J. Smith, a Village
Voice reporter who boarded the ves-
ida
“Here we have a deliberate at
tempt to test the authority of the
commission,” Richard M. Smith,
chief of the FCC’s Field Operations
Bureau, said at a news conference in
Washington. “We’ve had few if any
cases previously like this. We hope
this is a one-shot deal.”
An FCC statement said the agency
is “tasked with licensing and regulat
ing radio stations so that orderly and
efficent radio communication can be
provided to the general public. Un-
sel Monday night, was freed after his
identification was confirmed.
Village Voice executive editor Kit
Rachlis said Smith, a music column
ist, shared the views of the 20 radio
enthusiasts who started broadcasting
Thursday as an alternative to what
they consider stagnant rock ’n’ roll
formats on New York City stations.
The station broadcast for five
hours each evening except Saturday
while it tested its signals at 1620 on
the AM band, 103.1 FM and on
short wave and long wave frequen
cies, Steele, of Queens, said in a tele
phone interview.
Steele said those operating the sta
tion had tried repeatedly but failed
to get an FCC license on land.
On Friday, the station’s signal was
powerful enough to reach the FCC’s
monitoring station in Allegan,
Mich., FCC spokesman Sally Mott
Lawrence said.
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market bounded ahead Tuesd: ,es eaich
casting aside worries about tf/ 7 ai - 1
future and sending the Dt 1 j lua lv ah
Jones average of 30 industrials if, - r 7’
a record high. L ...
The closely watched indf' . ie (
closed at 2,519.77, up 25.J 0 P Ine ^
points from Monday and tf 1 ;
— record i^tncal
monduct t
lus on tin
Silent of c
above its previous
2,510.04, set July 17.
Some analysts said the mo'
was born out of the market’so* .
penchant for doing exactly lit; P V powei
opposite of what prevailing ft 1 p ,
dom would have it do. ,
They noted that many tradtr he said it
had been stuck in a mireofpes !“} e gover
mism and uncertainly in reed J time
days, pointing out that the if lotions ve
vance was led by a host of bid Sa id.
chips, while the broader mark He sai<
had not fared as well. necessary
“This was a skeptic’s rally,"f- I;
gene Peroni, of Janney Mot
gomery Scott Inc. in Philadf A /S
phia, said. “It seemed thateveti / \ 7$2
skepticism was advancing, V / "
market was undeterred in
quest for new highs.”
WASH
In fact, of all the listed iss- ; .
on the New York Stock &; eia ^dwi
change, gainers only outpact
decliners by a bit more than!
3, with 899 stocks closing higlif
658 lower and 419 unchanged
Big Board volume totak
172.60 million shares, compart
with 152.04 million shares t
Monday.
Thomas Czech, research dirt
tical lawi
this inqui
IJVednesd
1 Meese
(ions the
Ough.
severa
jeommitte
jtdA Din
tor for the Blunt Ellis & Loewi? v " 1 ' s<
curities firm in Milwaukee, al l H
suggested that Tuesday’s^ ^ ici ^
were based more on emotic • 1
than logic. involve,,,,
Nationwide turnover in NYS 1 • eese
listed issues, including trades ^ ,,'4 '
those stocks on regional 0 , ss ’
changes and in the „.eH* 1 “ che11 -
counter market, totaled
million shares.
The NYSE index was up 1
at 175.24.
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